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Excerpt from Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith: Being Selections of Hymns and Other Sacred Poems of the Liberal Church in America The present volume had its origin in a course of ten lectures on the History of Sacred Song in Hebrew and Christian times, which I gave to my own people of the Church of the Saviour, in Brooklyn, during the winter of 1872-1873, and repeated to the students of the Theological School at Meadville, Penn., in the following June. The last of the series treated particularly of Unitarian Hymnology, and led directly to the preparation of this book. My studies at that time only deepened the conviction, which very many others must have shared with me, that scattered through a wide range of literature were a great number of fine hymns, and brief religious poems beside, which, having had their rise in the Liberal Communion, and appearing to be just expressions of the Liberal Faith, might accomplish a more extended service by being brought together in a collected form, and thus made more accessible to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.